Holding(s) in Company

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
26 March 2002



                      J D Wetherspoon plc ('the Company')


J D Wetherspoon has today been advised that Legal & General Investment
Management has a notifiable interest in 6,382,033 Ordinary shares in the
Company, which represents 3.00% of the issued ordinary share capital.



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